5336. When he stood before Pharaoh king of Egypt. That this signifies when its presence was in the natural, is evident from the signification of “standing before anyone,” as being presence; and from the representation of Pharaoh king of Egypt, as being a new state of the natural, or a new natural man (see n. 5079, 5080), thus the natural in which the celestial of the spiritual now was, and which the celestial of the spiritual now made its own—as is also signified by the words immediately following, “and Joseph went out from before Pharaoh.”